[Tutor] Practice python

[Joel Goldstick]

I like the euler project

On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 8:00 PM, Alan Gauld via Tutor <tutor at python.org> wrote:
> On 08/05/16 18:14, monikajg at netzero.net wrote:
>
>> Can you please recommend a free web class or site that offers
>> lots of coding  exercises in python,
>
> Have you tried the Python Challenge web site?
>
>> ... intermediate and advanced AND provides solutions.
>
> The challenge site gets pretty advanced as you progress but
> there is usually an easy(ish) and a hard solution and you
> don't get shown a "correct" one - because correct doesn't
> make any real sense - you just know you got the right
> answer when you make it to the next level.
>
> But it certainly helps you grow as a Python programmer
> and it especially gets you familiar with the library.
>
>> I need more practice.
>
> Often the best practice is to do.
> Just pick a real project and wade in.
>
>> All the classes I have taken or looked at do not provide
>> enough exercises (with solutions) to retain the info.
>
> I'm always wary of "solutions". They can only ever be the
> authors best attempt but there will always be other,
> equally legitimate solutions. In my recent book I took
> pains to make the point that the "solutions" were only
> one possible way of doing it and if a reader did it
> another way that was probably fine too.
>
> I know a lot of people like exercises (and solutions)
> in books and tats why I provide them, but personally
> I've never done them in any programming book I've
> read (and that means dozens), instead I solve my
> own problems, even ones I've already solved in
> other languages...
>
> You will always learn far more from real world problem
> solving than from, any artificial exercise/solution.
>
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